{"id":32523,"date":"2025-02-05T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/former-gop-leader-mcconnell-falls-while-exiting-senate-chamber-after-turner-confirmation-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:17:58","slug":"former-gop-leader-mcconnell-falls-while-exiting-senate-chamber-after-turner-confirmation-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/former-gop-leader-mcconnell-falls-while-exiting-senate-chamber-after-turner-confirmation-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Former GOP leader McConnell falls while exiting Senate chamber after Turner confirmation vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate leader Mitch McConnell<\/a>, R-Ky., fell on a small set of stairs on Wednesday as he was exiting the Senate chamber after a confirmation vote for Housing and Urban Development secretary nominee Scott Turner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, who is 82 years old and a survivor of childhood Polio, fell down the stairs and was quickly assisted by Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether he suffered any injuries, but Fox News was told the former leader appears to be OK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s office did not immediately provide comment to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fell on a small set of stairs on Wednesday as he was exiting the Senate chamber after a confirmation vote for Housing and Urban Development secretary nominee Scott Turner.\u00a0 McConnell, who is 82 years old and a survivor of childhood Polio, fell down the stairs and was quickly &#8230; <a title=\"Former GOP leader McConnell falls while exiting Senate chamber after Turner confirmation vote\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/former-gop-leader-mcconnell-falls-while-exiting-senate-chamber-after-turner-confirmation-vote\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former GOP leader McConnell falls while exiting Senate chamber after Turner confirmation vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}